Come back tomorrow...

[Emerald Knight]

This was a couple of years back, but I still tell it to newbies.

The last Friday 13th movie came out the day before Valentine's day (which, incidentally, was Friday 13th) and I was on the elusive Box Office shift. A girl comes up to me.

Girl: One student for Friday 13th please.
Me: Do you have ID?
Girl: Sure.

She passes me an ID card for a local college (Sixth Form College, for Americans reading, is 16-19, occasionally with evening classes for mature students), which does have her date of birth on it, which was Valentine's day, her 18th birthday was the next day.

Me: I'm afraid you'll have to come in tomorrow to see this movie.
Girl: (confused) Why?
Me: The film is rated 18, and tomorrow is your 18th birthday.
Girl: Oh...

You feel bad when it's a matter of hours (this was about 9pm) but the law is the law.

[Kristev]

Such a shame. Three more hours and she'd have been able to go to the movie. It's fairy easy to hang about somewhere for a while and come back in three hours.

[Emerald Knight]

The only places open that time of night that you'd want to stay that long are the clubs, and they'd have bouncers keeping anyone under 18 out by then :/

But it is daft when people:
1) Don't check the certs
2) Think we only check the year.